genuflect

Shows like “Top Chef” teach us to genuflect at the altars of celebrity culinarians, viewing their restaurants and signature dishes as luxury experiences as opposed to showing regular folks how to think innovatively about dinner.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

But beyond the ambition to warp genres, he’s also refused to genuflect to industry conventions, especially ones for Spanish-speaking artists.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2022

“Let’s use this moment, not to just genuflect toward the cause of good and right, let’s really do something,” he said “We know Shawnee children died at that mission. We want those kids’ names.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

The restaurant is lined with press clippings, and toward the back, you can genuflect before a shrine to past candidates and ex-presidents.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020

If I do it just right, the crowd gasps aloud — they genuflect, weep, stretch their hands out, and touch.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

The woman who holds the head genuflects with her soaking parcel.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

But “The Andromeda Evolution” genuflects appropriately to the 1969 novel that instantly infected pop culture.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019

By the cross the priest is reminded of the death of Our Lord; he genuflects as an act of humility, and he strikes his breast to show his own unworthiness.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

He hired people because they genuflected to him, not because they had any expertise.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

I don’t recall whether we rose and genuflected upon the arrival of Big John, but doing so would’ve been appropriate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020

“The delivery guy genuflected and backed away slowly, never turned his back on the grave.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2018

As he is wont to do, Bill Shaikin once again genuflected at the Dodger altar and — cue the harp music — sang the praises of Chase Utley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2018

I genuflected at the font of holy water, wet my fingertips, and made the sign of the cross.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

He’s genuflecting and appears penitent, it’s him with no public or private, shipwrecked in place in a way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Over decades of presidential campaigns, the Iowa way has been to hop from town to town, taking questions from all comers and genuflecting to the local culinary traditions.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

The figures, dubbed the “kneeling attendants” by curators, crouch as if genuflecting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

The court did not fall all over itself genuflecting to the supposedly superior expertise of school administrators to make disciplinary decisions without judicial second-guessing.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021

But it was more like genuflecting in her presence.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez